If anyone is interested to know more about our reasons for building SlicingDice or what is powering the service under the hood, these blog posts below are good starting points:
Why we built SlicingDice https://blog.slicingdice.com/why-we-built-slicingdice-1beffc...
SlicingDice Uncovered - Part 1 https://blog.slicingdice.com/slicingdice-uncovered-part-1-in...
Happy to answer any questions about the service or infrastructure.
I would be happy to answer any questions about our own analytics database (S1Search)